back

  • Thomas Edison was born in Ohio in 1847.
  • As a child he grew vegetables and sold them in town.
  • Edison's favorite invention was the phonograph in 1877.
  • Thomas Edison did not in fact invent the light bulb, Sir Joseph Swan did. Thomas Edison only made it better.
  • By the 1890's hundreds of towns throughout the world had Edison's power stations .
0511101244a.jpgBy:Hannah Thompson